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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Some keyboard confusions
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:10:20
Message-Id: 20100919160922.GA5574@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Some keyboard confusions by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> [10-09-19 18:02]:
2 > On Sunday 19 September 2010 16:06:06 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 > > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> [10-09-18 18:00]:
4 > > > On Saturday 18 September 2010 04:44:35 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
5 > > > > KEYMAP="qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
6 > > >
7 > > > Try changing this to:
8 > > >
9 > > > KEYMAP="de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
10 > >
11 > > Unfortunately, this give me an QWERTY-keyboard layout (default).
12 >
13 > Hmm ... odd!
14 >
15 > There is no such keyboard file under ... /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty:
16 >
17 > $ ls -la /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty | grep de-latin1-nodeadkeys
18 > $
19 >
20 > unlike the qwertz directory:
21 >
22 > $ ls -la /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz | grep de-latin1-nodeadkeys
23 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295 May 14 18:59 de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz
24 >
25 > Have you perhaps made a typo?
26 > --
27 > Regards,
28 > Mick
29
30 Hi Mick,
31
32 The problem is somehow different. Because de-latin1-nodeadkeys is
33 not found undr /usr/share/keymaps (it is under
34 /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwert), there is no key(re)mapping at all and
35 everything remains by default...and this is a qwerty keyboard.
36
37 Setting it to KEYMAP="qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys" give /most/ (but
38 unfortunately not every) keymapping I want: No '@'for example but
39 nodeadkeys.
40
41 When doing a setxkbd de give me all keymappings -- but no nodeadkeys
42 (the dead keys are 'dead' and not 'nodead').
43
44 So, currently I can choose between two not completly good settings...
45
46 Best regards,
47 mcc